Property market
The five-year median is £192,500 from 4 recorded sales in L31 1BN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sefton is £225,433 in June 2026, up 5.2% year on year.
L31 1BN
Aintree & Maghull South · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Liverpool
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 1BN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 1
- Latitude
- 53.488448
- Longitude
- -2.911693
- British National Grid easting
- 339,605
- British National Grid northing
- 399,467
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Aintree & Maghull South · E05016326
- Parish or community
- E04000034
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035696
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 026A · E01007039
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 026 · E02001454
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore L31
Property
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 31, Station Road, Melling, Liverpool, L31 1BN | 23 January 2026 | £235,000 |
| 67, Station Road, Melling, Liverpool, L31 1BN | 6 November 2025 | £185,000 |
| 39, Station Road, Melling, Liverpool, L31 1BN | 13 December 2023 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 10
- 183 m
Melling Primary School
Community school
- 720 m
Westvale Primary School
Community school
- 926 m
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,264
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 607
- Criminal damage and arson 160
- Drugs 108
- Public order 101
- Anti social behaviour 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 67
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- L31 1 residents
- 4,971
41 female, 26 male
Age bands in L31 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
979 residents
617 residents
1,485 residents
1,548 residents
817 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L31 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
22
within 5 km straight-line
DR MAASSARANI & PARTNERS
EBONY WAY, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 1XT
ODS code N83608
1.8 km
THE MACMILLAN SURGERY
ST. CHADS WALK IN CENTRE, ST. CHADS DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L32 8RE
ODS code N83601
1.9 km
MILLBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
SOUTHDENE PCRC, BEWLEY DRIVE, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L32 9PF
ODS code N83032
2.1 km
ST. LAURENCE'S MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LEESIDE AVENUE, LIVERPOOL, L32 9QU
ODS code N83033
2.4 km
WINGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
79 BIGDALE DRIVE, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 6YJ
ODS code N83009
2.5 km
WESTMORELAND GP CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE, FAZAKERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L9 7AL
ODS code N82037
2.8 km
GILLMOSS MEDICAL CENTRE
48 PETHERICK ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L11 0AG
ODS code N82087
3.4 km
MOSS WAY
51 MOSS WAY, LIVERPOOL, L11 0BL
ODS code N82655
3.6 km
POULTER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
34 POULTER ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L9 0HJ
ODS code N82648
3.6 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
3.7 km
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
3.7 km
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
3.7 km
LONG LANE
LONG LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, LONG LANE, WALTON, LIVERPOOL, L9 6DQ
ODS code N82110
3.7 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
4.0 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
4.0 km
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
4.1 km
STOPGATE LANE MEDICAL CTR
6 STOPGATE LANE, WALTON, LIVERPOOL, L9 6AP
ODS code N82678
4.5 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL CENTRE
52-54 CROXTETH HALL LANE, CROXTETH, LIVERPOOL, L11 4UG
ODS code N82083
4.5 km
ORRELL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY CHURCH, ORRELL LANE, LIVERPOOL, L9 8BU
ODS code N84027
4.5 km
AINTREE PARK GROUP PRACTICE
46 MOSS LANE, ORRELL PARK, LIVERPOOL, L9 8AL
ODS code N82053
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Andrew Avenue
BCT · Waddicar
- 0.1 miles
Woodland Road
BCT · Waddicar
- 0.1 miles
Mount Road
BCT · Kirkby
- 0.2 miles
Birchtree Drive
BCT · Waddicar
- 0.2 miles
Park Road
BCT · Kirkby Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 026A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,766 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 10 secondary schools. Melling Primary School is the nearest published school at 183 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,264 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 607 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.